South Carolina Senator Announcement

2012-12-17T12:11:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a84/309989-m.jpgGovernor Nikki Haley (R) announced the appointment U.S. Representative Tim Scott (R-SC) to succeed to the seat of U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), who resigned from the Senate as of January 1, 2013, to become the president of the Heritage Foundation. Representative Scott would become the first black Republican senator from the South since Reconstruction.